"Lux Clamorque” is a collaboration in audio and photography between sound artist, Nicholas Maloney, and photographer, Jon-Michael Platt. Field recordings were taken in Jackson and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Photographs were taken in Hattiesburg and Petal, Mississippi. 

Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist and musician based out of Jackson, MS. 

Jon-Michael Platt is a scholar and photographer based out of Hattiesburg, MS. 

Artist Bio: 

“Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and recording engineer from Jackson, Mississippi. He earned his bachelor's degree in Recording Industry Production from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2017.  For the past 6 years, he has been working in the areas of drone, ambient, musique concrète, and electroacoustics. Nicholas creates recordings that he feels can provoke emotion, while at the same time offering a pallet of sound that can be used to practice the rewarding act of deep listening. He looks to challenge the listeners’ focus and perception of sound. Much of his work explores the textural nature of sound within a framework of progressing and evolving compositions. He is interested in the interaction among texture, sound, and space.  

Under his full name, Nicholas Maloney creates and releases compositions using field recordings, found sounds, and a variety of processing and audio transformation techniques. 

His primary project, Blanket Swimming, explores experimental/ambient/and drone compositions using guitar, synthesizers, tape manipulation, field recordings, voice, and other instrumentation. Blanket Swimming has the rare talent of straddling both melancholy drones and uplifting melodies, striking lasting emotional impression by exercising the construction/destruction of stereo drones with found sounds and often ethereal vocals. Blanket Swimming is constantly pushing the boundaries by trying to create a world of sound that has not yet been explored.”

Websites: 

Nicholas Maloney / Blanket Swimming 

https://nicholas-maloney.weebly.com/bio.html

https://blanketswimming.bandcamp.com/

Jon-Michael Platt 

https://www.facebook.com/jonmichael.platt